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Yet Another Petstore !
Do you remember the good old Java Petstore ? It was a sample application created by Sun for its Java BluePrints program. The Java Petstore was designed to illustrate how J2EE (and then Java EE) could...
View ArticleDédicace du livre Java EE 6
Aujourd’hui, les exemplaires du livre Java EE 6 sont enfin arrivés en Europe. J’ai reçu ma petite collection privée de 20 exemplaires ainsi que tous les bons libraires informatiques parisiens. Alors,...
View ArticleJava EE 6 is touring French JUGs
One beauty of living in a country with nearly 20 Java User Groups is that you can travel around while talking about your favourite topics. For me, at the moment, it’s Java EE 6 (thanks to my book). So...
View ArticleA busy week at Devoxx
If you don’t already know it, next week is Devoxx : the biggest European Java conference. It’s my 4th time there and this year I’ll be doing 2 conferences, 1 BOF and 1 book signing session. Tuesday,...
View ArticleJava EE 6 ? Excuse my French !
It's been a long time since I haven't blogged about what I am doing on evenings and week-ends. For people who think that I watch TV and have BBQs on Saturdays, I have to tell you that I don't have any...
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Bootstrapping CDI in several environments
I feel like writing some posts about CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection). So this is the first one of a series of x posts (0<x<10). I will not go through the entire history of CDI (formerly...
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Adding CDI to an existing Java EE 6 application
In my previous post I've shown you how to bootstrap CDI in several environments (GlassFish, Tomcat, Jetty, Java SE). So now let's go a bit further and use it in real code. As its name states, CDI...
View ArticleWalking through the Java EE 6 implementation maze
I've been asked so many times "what are the implementations of such or such specification in Java EE 6 ?" or "what is the reference implementation of such a spec ?". Because I always forget some (and...
View ArticleO Java EE 6 Application Servers, Where Art Thou?
Nearly two years ago (time flies), when Java EE 6 came out, I wrote a post about application servers where I did some micro benchmarking (basically, startup time). I had plenty of comments and recently...
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WYTIWYR : What You Test Is What You Run
I'm fed up with unit testing ! It's 2012 and my first resolution of the year is to finally tell the truth about testing : unit testing is pretty much useless when your code runs inside a container. How...
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